A: The Legend of the Archangel series follows the adventures of Scarlett Porter as she begins her angel training at the exclusive BlackBell Academy and the journey to her destiny.

Q: Where is the series set?

A: The series starts off in Melbourne, Australia, then moves to Sydney and then overseas to South America and Italy as the series progresses.

Q: How many books are in the series?

A: There are 6 books in the Legend of the Archangel series, but there are two more series which are set in the same universe: The Eden Chronicles (complete) and An Angel of London series (to be written).

Q: What is the collective series called?

A: The Nephilim Universe.

Q: What is the reading order of the Nephilim Universe books?

A: The reading order of the Nephilim Universe is:

1.The Chronicles of Fire and Ice

2.The Garden of Eden

3.The Chronicles of Blood and Stone

4.The Chronicles of Silver and Gold

5.The Garden of Death

6.The Chronicles of Rain and Dreams

7.The Garden of Fate

8.The Chronicles of Light and Dark

9.The Chronicles of Heart and Soul

10.An Angel of Hope

11.An Angel of Song

12.An Angel of Darkness

Q: What are you working on now?

A: I am currently finishing up the last 2 books in the Aqua Saga, which will be released early 2017.

Author Bio

L.L. Hunter is the author of over 20 published works, including The Legend of the Archangel Series and The Eden Chronicles. She has studied everything from veterinary nursing, forensic science, and dramatic arts, but has always known her true calling was to be an author. She has been writing since her teens - everything from fan fiction, to song lyrics, to plays and musicals. When not working on her next paranormal romance, she can be found at home in Australia, reading somewhere comfortable with one or both of her “fur babies.” Follow her on Facebook (Facebook.com/llhunterbooks, Twitter @llhunterbooks, and her blog - http://llhunter.blogspot.com.au.

For your chance to win a $25 amazon giftcard, and an ebook copy of The Chronicles of Heart and Soul when it is released on November 9th, tell me in 25 words or less, if you could have any dream come true, what would it be and why? These must be actual dreams you’ve had, not aspirations or goals.

I find myself coming back to the same answer when asked this question: Violet Streiff from Without You.

Without You, my second novel, is a new adult novel that follows two women, Jenna and Violet, through a year of big changes. Both women are in their late twenties and live in the same town, but they have very different lives. Jenna is married to the hunky Camden and works as an accountant. She’s rational to the core. Violet is the zany redhead who started her own bakery slash coffee shop out of college. After a horrible breakup, she’s feeling forever alone, struggling with the single life.

Violet is my favorite because she’s everything I’m not. She’s wild and a bit free-spirited. She thinks with her heart while I, like Jenna, tend to think with my head. She’s an eternal optimist, a believer in love, and a dream chaser.

But that’s not all Violet has going for her. Read on to find five reasons you’ll be rooting for Violet Streiff in Without You. Plus, be sure to check out my giveaway at the bottom of this post where you can win a gift basket of Violet’s favorite things!

1.Violet’s a cat lady.

Violet has an eighteen-pound cat named Bob whom she adopted from her elderly neighbor when she had to go to a nursing home. Bob loves cupcakes and goes with Vi on Sunday to visit his previous owner.

My real life Bob is on the left...and he likes cupcakes, just like Violet's Bob.

1.Violet has an awesome, hilarious best friend named Ray.

Violet met Ray in college when he asked to borrow her pen. Ray’s not afraid to call Violet by her most hated nickname—Purple—or to tell her she’s being too uptight. Violet’s not afraid to tell Ray his girlfriend Raina is creepy. Their friendly, playful banter will make you want your own Ray in your life.

2.Violet loves literature, coffee, and cupcakes.

Although we’re very different, she’s a girl after my own heart. She started her bakery/coffee shop called Vi’s, which is the setting for much of the book, to combine her love for all three.

3.She’s got a great sense of humor.

Even when she’s going through some intense moments in the book and heavy drama, she doesn’t lose her sense of humor. She isn’t afraid to laugh at herself or to see her own faults. She’s relatable because she doesn’t take herself too seriously.

4.She’s loyal to her family and to her values.

She helps her sister out by babysitting her niece. Despite her mom’s botched blind date attempts, she still turns to her for advice. Most of all, when Vi’s morals are put to the test in Without You, she stays true to who she is. She’s not perfect, but she does her best to be a woman she is proud of.

There are so many reasons you’ll love Vi, and so many reasons she’s my favorite character I’ve written. Be sure to find your own reasons by picking up a copy of the book. Also, enter my Vi’s Favorites Giveaway to get a basket of her favorite things and a copy of the book. Contest ends October 31st, 2016, so hurry and enter!

Hi everyone, my name is Derek Murphy (D.S. Murphy) and I write dark fantasy based on history and world mythology. My first book, Shearwater, is a mermaid romance set in Ireland, with a lot of magic, death and mayhem. Part one has 250 reviews and I’m working on part two now – here’s a sneak peak.

You can get the rest for free on Amazon and I hope to finish part 2 soon. The other book I think you’ll like is Scarlet Thread, based on Greek Mythology, it’s kind of a Percy Jackson meets Fallen story.

Below is a *possible* scene for the not-yet-released part two.

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My name is Kaidance Monroe, and sometimes when I touch people, I see how they die.

At least that’s how this story began. But last night changed everything. A few days ago I saw Matt die. I saw the sword sticking out of his beastly chest, blood gurgling from his lips. The golden sword, glittering with blue jewels, glowing in the mystical darkness of Able’s ancient mansion… the crown that symbolized Zeus’s kingdom shining like a beacon. All of Zeus’s winged army had swords like that—hunters, created to rid the world of magic.

In the past, every time I had a vision of someone’s death, it came true.

But last night, when hunters broke through the ceiling like bolts of lightning, it was my death they were after. So I couldn’t let them kill Matt. I couldn’t let him die for me. I was supposed to use the shotgun and sword Sitri gave me, but I couldn’t do it. Not when I saw Puriel. His tall, angelic form. His amber eyes and nearly white hair. The shimmering mirrored wings behind him. I couldn’t destroy something that beautiful. And I didn’t want any more deaths. I just wanted it to stop. So I offered myself to him. Let them take what they came for. In that moment, I was prepared to die.

Instead…Puriel burst into flames, and Matt lived.

Which means, my visions don’t have to come true.

Which means, I might not be the monster everyone always thought I was.

But why did Puriel hesitate? Why not destroy me like Zeus ordered him to? He’d become a torch, cast off from Zeus’s favor. After serving obediently for thousands of years. How could that have happened? I was about to find out.

I snuck downstairs after everyone was sleeping and peeked through the rusted iron bars of the small window on the door where Puriel was being kept. I could barely see him in the dark. His pale, white body made him look like a ghost, surrounded by walls of solid concrete. Ash and soot stuck to his skin in dark patches, and he smelled like charcoal, singed hair and burnt feathers. I heard the grating noise of heavy chains being dragged across the stone floor and noticed that the dark cuffs around his neck and wrists were fixed to the wall. That’s when he noticed me.

I gasped when he looked up, his eyes were black sockets, gaping voids of desolation and heartbreak. The beautiful thing Puriel had been yesterday was gone, and this thing was ruin incarnate. His eyes sparked like glowing coals, as furious patches of bright orange burned in the darkness of the room. He moaned, straining against his restraints, his muscles tense as he reached towards the door. Towards me.

I choked back a sob at the thing he’d become.

Then I took the heavy skeleton key, turned the giant lock, and stepped inside.

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You can get it for free on Amazon here. I just finished my PhD in Literature on Paradise Lost so fallen angels and forgotten gods are kind of my thing, but I like slow, mysterious stories with lots of tensions and build up.

On my site, UrbanEpics.com, I do lots of giveaways with other authors. Right now we’re running a giveaway of 28 dark fantasy books for fans of Fallen, in celebration of the release of the Fallen movie.

Hello everybody, I’m Joey Morris and today I’ll be taking over the cover process my amazing creator designed for Lineage. A bone chilling novel about what used to be my fairly average life.

Not anymore! Marty Adams here, aka bestfriend and keeper of all things fabulous. For the record Joey your life was far from average before the book, how many times have you moved...What did you say it was. Oh yes, three schools for every grade.

Thanks Marty. Let’s move on.

Our creator, J.N. Sheats, has been working on this story for years. Developing the hellish nightmares she puts me—

Us.

Us through. But the story wasn’t the only thing that evolved over time. The cover has too.

Marty: Wow, are you turning into a wolf in that first one? What’s up with the random capital letters, this chick has interesting design tastes.

Joey: Be nice, if she wants she can kill you in the next book.

Marty: What, so you want me to kiss her backend? Not going to happen. I’ll risk it.

Joey: ~Rolls Eyes~

Marty: Can we ignore the first two ever happened, I don’t want those associated with me.~Shudders~

Joey: Fine, moving on. As the book neared completion our creator decided to try out an all illustrated cover. Which didn’t turn out the way she wanted, but given deadlines and other projects the third cover was born.

Marty: ~Laughs~ Your face looks like an alien. ~Laughs~

Joey: ~Through gritted teeth~ Not pleased with the cover, J.N. reworked the cover into its final version.

Marty: After all that she comes up with a stuffy old look. Boring! Looks likesomething Jamie would read, or worse, you.

Joey: The books I read are not stuffy or old. They’re assigned, and if you read a little more you might not be failing four classes.

Marty: Well, I guess it has some character. Let’s see how she did it.

Lineage Cover Process

Illustrated by J.N. Sheats

Step 1:

Marty: What the hell is that!?

Joey: It’s a sketch, Marty. What did you expect, she puts pencil to paper and poof! Magic?

Marty: No, but maybe a little refinement or something, and that hair has to be yours. You being the wild child you are.

Joey: ~Sighs~

Step 2:

Joey: Is that better?

Marty: No, now you look like a frog. What’s up with the nose. Maybe she should have sourced this cover out, I’m seriously wondering about her skills. What’s an author doing illustrating anyways?

Joey: She was an artist/designer before becoming a writer, and this is the line art. It’s supposed to look that way.

Marty: Well, at this point I’m under whelmed. Let’s see if it gets any better.

Step 3:

Joey: After the line art the artist creates a grayscale rendering. Gen—

Joey: Alright, fine. Do you want to stick around and finish up with me?

Jamie: No, I’ve got stuff to do. I only came in here to tell you a hot guy is wandering around outside.

Joey: Oh, who?

Cameron: ~Enters~ There you are kid. Stop wandering off.

Jamie: You two play nice. ~Leaves~

Joey: Wait...No... Crap. What do you want, Cam?

Step 8:

Cameron: I told you to stay in your room.

Joey: I’m not your prisoner, and I’m busy.

Cameron: Don’t tempt me.

Joey:~Clears throat~ We’re nearing the end of the coloring process. Finishing touches are added, the center pendant is given a fancy look, and a rim light is added to the wolf-things.

Cameron: They’re black dogs.

Joey: How do you know what they are?

Cameron: Does it matter, just stay away from them. Make my life easier.

Joey: Why, you make my life a living hell. You blow in out of nowhere, then you threaten me before kidnapping me off to that musty old haunted manor.

Cameron: You’re forgetting, I saved you.

Joey: I don’t have time for this.

Step 9:

Joey: Cover is nearly complete, after 32 hours of work the palette samples are removed. An effect is added on the pendant, and last touches are added. It’s really come a long way.

Cameron: Violent, evil dogs...Pulling you out of the line of fire...Stopping a spirit from possessing your body. Any of it ringing any bells?

Joey: Just for the record, Bingo banished the spirit. Not you, and how does that make up for the fact you stuck your gun in my chest? Or what about your mood-swings, talk about keeping a girl on her toes.

Cameron:~Moves closer to Joey~ You like the challenge.

Joey:~Blushes~ Time to wrap this up.

Joey: The final result is a polished cover totaling 43 hours of work. Wow, our author must really love us.

Cameron: Or takes joy in hurting people. She may even be passionate it about it.

Joey: Why does everyone think the writer is going to kill them off?

Cameron: Haunted manor, spirit possession, killer on the loose, and black dogs running around. If at least a dozen people aren’t murdered I would be impressed.

Joey: You’re the hero, go do something about it.

Cameron: My only concern is you.

Marty: ~Enters~ See, I told you I’m going to die.

Joey: ~Rolls Eyes~ Alright, that’s it. No more. We’re done. There’s the cover, I hope you enjoyed seeing the artist process, and you can catch me and Cameron—

Marty: And me!

Joey: In Lineage this October.

Marty: They’ll be just in time for Homecoming! I found a great— Conversation fades out

Joey Morris has spent her young life moving around the country with her constantly absent mother until finally ending up in the small college town of Portstown, Pennsylvania. Here history is thick in the air and Joey discovers that her family has long reaching roots in the town, dating back to the very first settlement. Because of her heritage she is welcomed into the group of the other founding families, and quickly becomes one of the popular girls in school.

After over a year of the good life and Homecoming just days away, Joey is thrown into a terrifying new reality. Happening across a violent black dog with glowing red eyes, and a handsome stranger that puts his life on the line to save her only to stick a gun in her chest moments later.

Now people are dying in Portstown, people close to Joey and she doesn't understand why. Will Joey have anyone left after she discovers the truth about her past?

Cameron Davis is a man from another life, for years he has been focused on his mission. The drive that keeps his soul locked inside a physical body, staving off the reaper. That all changes when he is given the task of protecting Joey and stopping the attacks.

This girl makes him weak and brings up memories of a past he left behind nearly a century ago. What secrets lie beyond his contract with the elusive Warner family, and why does this girl need protecting?

Lineage is a young adult novel but is recommended for readers 16+ due to violence.

J.N. Sheats is an artist turned author. Living in Maryland with six wild cats, and her husband, J.N. spends her days designing covers and teasers for other authors. At night she is at the mercy of her demanding characters, and their wild fantasies.

Dark Paranormal Fantasy is her preferred genre of writing, but anything is game. Maybe even a lovely romance novel or two in the near future.

When not writing, designing, or drawing, J.N. spends her time doing a host of other activities. Including: gardening, jewelry making, cooking, and watching far too much television.

Catch what’s up in J.N. Sheats’ crazy life with the links below. Stalkers welcomed. ;)

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Hi
there! I'm Danielle Rose, the author of Daemon Academy and the forthcoming Blood Bookstrilogy,
and I'm thrilled to be here. First, I thought I'd share a little bit about me:
I currently reside in the Midwest, where
I spend my days dreaming of warmer temperatures. When not
writing, reading, or traveling, I like to pretend I live in California,
spend an embarrassing amount of time at Hobby Lobby, binge watch Netflix, and
cheer for my favorite football team (Go Packers!).

Daemon
Academy, my young adult horror short story, is a spooky tale just in time
for Halloween! Kemper Academy is over a hundred years old,
but it has only recently reopened after a series of murders and stories of
hauntings shut it down. Avlynn, a new student, refuses to let the rumors scare
her, chalking them up to a bit of friendly freshman hazing. But when night
falls and screams draw her from her room, she finds the truth is much more
horrifying than any ghost story.